by Sébastien Japrisot · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070387366
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«Un long dimanche de fiançailles» is the historical novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by Folio in paperback (373 pages, in French).
During the First World War, five French soldiers are sentenced to death and thrown into no man's land. Mathilde, who loves the youngest, refuses to accept his death and, after the war ends, investigates stubbornly to uncover the truth, amid lies and silences, throughout the 1920s.
Novel winner of the Prix Interallié 1991. This Folio edition, number 2491 in the collection, was published in June 1993.
For readers who enjoy historical and romantic fiction set during the First World War and classics of French literature.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
